Microservices Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Microservices
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Microservices skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 41 44
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.28% 0.92% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 1.14% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £401 £443
25th Percentile - £505 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% +6.98% -1.15%
75th Percentile - £625 £613
90th Percentile - £693 £681
East of England median daily rate £500 £400 £527
% change year-on-year +25.00% -24.03% -15.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 309 352 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.03% 81.11% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 119 191
10th Percentile £250 £225 £225
25th Percentile £400 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £558 £550
90th Percentile £700 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £442 £500
% change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 136 192
10th Percentile £14.29 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.88 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £21.13 £16.85 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £42.88 £28.08
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -37.13% +101.92% -3.37%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Cambridgeshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#